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Cancer incidence rising among adults under 50, new report finds, leaving doctors puzzled and worried

www.cnn.com Cancer incidence rising among adults under 50, new report finds, leaving doctors puzzled and worried | CNN

Cancer patients are “increasingly shifting from older to middle-aged individuals,” according to a report released Wednesday by the American Cancer Society.

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“I was 34 years old, in what I would consider incredible health. I worked out five to six days a week, very low body fat, ate really healthy, and was in no pain or anything, but I noticed some clotted blood in my stool on a few different occasions,” said Herting, who is now 44 and married to Amber. He added that his father was diagnosed with stage I colon cancer in his early 50s but said he had no other known family history of the disease.

Herting’s journey of battling early-onset cancer is an experience shared by a growing proportion of young adults.

Cancer patients are “increasingly shifting from older to middle-aged individuals,” according to a report released Wednesday by the American Cancer Society.

Among adults 65 and older, adults 50 to 64 and those younger than 50, “people aged younger than 50 years were the only one of these three age groups to experience an increase in overall cancer incidence” from 1995 to 2020, says the report, which was published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.

Even though the overall US population is aging, “we’re seeing a movement of cancer diagnosis into younger folks, despite the fact that there are more people that are in the older populations,” said Dr. William Dahut, chief scientific officer for the American Cancer Society.

“So cancer diagnoses are shifting earlier,” he said. “There’s something going on here.”

33 comments

Maybe microplastics and forever chemicals?

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- And highly processed foods?
  
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  Nitrates are a huge concern and linked to colon cancer at this point. In basically any preserved lunch meat even if "nitrate free" where celery salt is added and usually creates more nitrates than the nitrate added stuff. https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/cancer-carcinogenicity-of-the-consumption-of-red-meat-and-processed-meat
  
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  The industry calls it "garbage feeding."
  
  Don't worry, they view us very similarly to how they view other "livestock."
  
  They'll just use fancier words when they're aiming it at humans because a lot of us know how to read, so they need to obfuscate it when it comes to us.
  
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- No, it's obviously the guys and libtards.
  
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Screening is a normal thing these days...

This is compared to 95 and earlier.

People still had cancer then, they weren't just finding out till later. Now we find out early and do treatments.

We'd also need to compare general mortality rates. Dying from a car accident with undiagnosed cancer "hides" the cancer.

This is a good data point, but we need more

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- This would make sense if it would take 20 years for cancer to develop.
  
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- The mortality rate from car accidents has been continually dropping.
  
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  Unless you're a pedestrian. Rates of cars killing pedestrians have gone way up.
  
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- I'm certain the study took this into account. Usually people doing studies aren't idiots.
  
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- Considering that 20 years ago, a person had a 1/3 chance of getting cancer over their lifetime, any increase among younger people is concerning
  
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  the guy above you is saying that 1/3 chance of being DIAGNOSED with cancer is not the same as 1/3 chance of having cancer.
  
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As an under-50 with cancer:

Yyyyyyep.

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- Damn, good luck Snot Flickerman!
  
  Please don't flick your cancerous snot around though!
  
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- One of my closest friends got testicular cancer in his early 30s. Thankfully, he survived. His testicle did not.
  
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  That’s why you have two!
  
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I feel like in a decade or two when there is more time to study long-term effects, the answer to all these issues will be microplastics.

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- It will never be one thing. Some of it will be microplastics for sure, but there will be other causes too.
  
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  Yeah like nanoplastics.
  
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So, if your dad died of colon cancer and you see blood in your stool…. Ya might wanna keep an eye on that.

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That must be some kind of record as far as incongruous article photos go!

Those fuckers look almost DELIRIOUSLY happy next to an article about two of them being more likely to get cancer! 😄

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I had cancer at 40. A kind of cancer that generally doesn't affect males as its growth is thought to be tied to estrogen production. Yet I am a man. It also was on my scapula and invaded my spinal column collapsing it. The strange thing about this is that it generally affects only abdomens. Only a handful of cases of this happening world wide exist. Yet it is becoming much more common and these cases appear more frequently now.

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Stress causes swelling, cancer is related to swelling, so that's a possibility

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- Cancer is the result of a lot of things. At its core, it's a system run-amok due to:
  
  Oxidation / free radicals.
  
  Ionizing radiation damage.
  
  Anything else that can damage the DNA itself (eg, asbestos).
  
  Natural mutation / degradation having a cascading effect (copy of a copy).
  
  Cancer happens every day in your body, but most mutations are easily identified and your Killer T (and natural killer) Cells eliminate them or they self-destruct (gross oversimplification, certainly). Cancer arises when there's a perfect storm that impacts these systems at a scale that can't be contained.
  
  Stress is certainly one aspect of this. Chronic inflammation, chronic cortisol, CRP, etc... Is very taxing on the body.
  
  So generally: don't stress your body out, don't expose yourself to anything that damages your DNA acutely, and don't so anything that requires a lot of turnover of new cells.
  
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  ^ yeah, what he said. XD
  
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